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Fencing Teams Win Gold at the World Cups in Algeria and Switzerland

MTI-Hungary Today 2024.11.11.

The Hungarian women’s  sabre fencing team won a gold medal at the World Cup in Oran, Algeria, shortly after the Hungarian men’s epée fencing team also stood at the top of the podium at the Berne World Cup in Bern, Switzerland over the weekend.

The men’s team at the Berne World Cup were missing Olympic champions Gergely Siklósi and Dávid Nagy, while the previous day’s individual winner and 2023 world champion Máté Koch, and the individual fourth-place finisher at the Paris Games Tibor Andrásfi were present, who were now joined by Gergely Kovács and Zsombor Keszthelyi.

The Hungarians reached the final with victories against the Australians (45-24), the Canadians (45-34), the Kazakhs (45-36) and the French (45-41), where they met the Japanese, just like at the Olympic Games in Paris.

There were also two substitutions for the Asian team, but here too Hungary’s fencers won the duel 34-27.

During the sabre World Cup in Algeria, the team with Sugár Battai, who had won bronze in the individual competition the day before, Luca Szűcs, Anna Spiesz, and Renáta Katona defeated Hong Kong 45:31, Germany 45:37 and China 45:43.

In the final, Hungary, with Battai and Szűcs, the two-time world champions, and Katona, the one-time world champion, met Poland and won the gold medal 45:36.

 

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Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Pruger Tamás


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